Every couple of months, Treble runs a summary of a handful of notable singles and EPs released during that season. Yet, it's 2010 and most bands and artists are releasing singles or EPs as free downloads, some of which aren't even connected to an album. Many of them, however, do have a new album ...

We’re two and a half months into 2010, and it’s already looking to be a darn good year for music. It’s early, we recognize that. But so far, we’ve seen some spectacular releases from bands we love and bands we’ve just discovered. Owen Pallett gave up his Final Fantasy moniker, but the payoff was ...

A few weeks ago, I offered my thoughts on the complicated and extremely non-specific genre known simply as "alternative." Survey most experts, music critics, or anyone who has listened to the radio in the last 20 years on what they would consider "alternative," and you may get a different answer, ...

Baroness is a band whose sound seems capable of not just filling stadiums, but eating entire cities. They're more than a band, they're practically a force of nature. And at their most recent show at the Casbah in San Diego, their intense, melodic metal assault practically plowed through the 200 or ...

In two weeks, Pavement, a band who deserves a ‘best-of’ compilation more than just about any other indie rock group in recent memory, will finally see the release of their own compilation of singles and fan favorites, titled . Yet many of their contemporaries and more ...

A few weeks before Christmas, my wife and I did something that, just a few years prior, we would have gone out of our way to avoid-we attended a concert organized and promoted by a commercial, alternative rock radio station. Prior to 2009, we had only attended one such show, a New Year's Eve event ...

In 1966, a year after and a year before Monterrey Pop, the most popular song in America was not a British Invasion swinger or an early psychedelic freakout. It was the “Ballad of the Green Beret” by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler. And people wonder how Nixon got elected in ’68. ...

The decade has come to an end. And of course, you know what that means-lists, `best ofs' and all kinds of general retrospective features and columns. Now that the last ten years have passed, we’re continuing our look at the best non-single tracks to emerge since the Y2K scare proved to be a ...

When a band calls itself The Black Heart Procession, it’s fairly safe to know what you’re getting into—to an extent. The San Diego band has become known for its dramatic and macabre compositions, as each of their six albums features its share of ghostly, heebie-jeebie inducing elements. How those ...

A lot changed with regard to music in the last ten years. The MP3 became the dominant medium of choice, indie rock went mainstream (again), mainstream went underground, listening habits became far more scattered and patchwork, million-selling albums became an endangered species, and against the ...